BOLOGNA.

Drawn by J. D. Harding.

LORD BYRON stayed a few days at Bologna, on his way to Ravenna, in 1819. He announced his arrival there in a letter to Mr. Hoppner: "I am at length joined to Bologna, where I am settled like a sausage, and shall be broiled like one, if this weather continues;" and to Mr. Murray he describes with great spirit a character whom he met with in the burying-ground of Bologna:

"I have been picture-gazing this morning at the famous Domenichino and Guido, both of which are superlative. I afterwards went to the beautiful cemetery of Bologna, beyond the walls; and found, besides the superb burial-ground, an original of a custode, who reminded one of the grave-digger in Hamlet. He has a collection of capuchins' sculls, labelled on the forehead; and taking down one of them, said, 'This was Brother Desiderio Berro, who died at forty-one of my best friends. I begged his head of his brethren after his disease, and they gave it me. I put it in lime, and then boiled it. Here it is, teeth and all, in excellent